8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



We are greatly indebted to Professor Hyatt for the care he has 

 given to the collection of Invertebrate Fossils under his charge ; 

 he has spent considerable time in picking out additional Cephalo- 

 pods, which have been placed on exhibition with the Systematic 

 Collection of Mollusks. Mr. R. T. Jackson has also taken great 

 interest in this collection, and we owe to him the acquisition of 

 many interesting fossils filling gaps in our stores, as well as thanks 

 for the time he has spent in arranging certain parts of the collec- 

 tion of Fossil Invertebrates. 



Mr. Brewster has, as in former years, kindly supervised the care 

 of the collection of Birds and Mammals. 



To Mr. Faxon has fallen the general supervision of the Museum 

 collections, and much of the routine work of the establishment. 

 During the past year he has been mainly engaged in the revision 

 of the collection of Mollusks, and in the printing of his Monograph 

 on the Crustacea of the " Albatross " Expedition of 1891. 



Mr. Garman reports that the alcoholic collections of Reptiles 

 and Fishes are in unusually good condition, and the same is the 

 case with the alcoholic collections of Invertebrates. 



Mr. Henshaw also states that the Entomological Collections are 

 in excellent condition, and that their use and that of the Entomo- 

 logical Library is constantly increasing. 



Since last January, Dr. C. R. Eastman has been placed in charge 

 of our collection of Fossil Vertebrates. Since the death of Dr. 

 G. A. Maack, in 1871, it had received no attention. The immense 

 accessions made since that time by purchase or by expeditions 

 were merely unpacked and laid away in trays, often in the original 

 wrappers. With the exception of the examination of some of the 

 mammalian remains by Professors Scott and Osborne, nothing of 

 value had been done. Dr. Eastman has now made a general revis- 

 ion of this collection, arranging the material systematically. We 

 can therefore form some idea of what our desiderata are to make 

 the collection, what it should be, a representative one both faunally 

 and systematically. A great mass of valuable material will soon 

 be available for exhibition, and we hope to lay aside for the Fossil 

 Faunal Rooms such types as properly belong on exhibition. To 

 give an idea of our Fossil Vertebrate collection, Dr. Eastman 

 has prepared a chronological list of the collections which have at 

 various times become the property of the Museum. 



Dr. W. McM. Wordworth, who has had charge of the collection 



